Excerpt from The Hunting of the Snark and Other Poems and Verses: And Other Poems Girt with a boyish garb for boyish task, Eager She wields her spade: yet loves as well Rest on a friendly knee, intent to ask The tale he loves to tell. Rude spirits of the seething outer strife, Unmeet to read her pure and Simple spright, Deem, if you list, such hours a waste Of life, Empty of all delight Chat on, sweet Maid, and rescue from annoy Hearts that by Wiser talk are unbeguiled; Ah, happy he who owns that tenderest joy, The heart-love of a child Away, fond thoughts, and vex my soul no more Work claims my wakeful nights, my busy days, Albeit bright memories of that sunlit Shore Yet haunt my dreaming gaze About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.